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Added 2024-06-05 00:21:48 +0000 UTCComments
Tex, been enjoying the heck outta your Ultimate Admiral playthroughs. I know last week I asked about the M10 Booker and you said that would take some time to concisely answer. Wanted to get your opinion on something else I hope is more in your wheelhouse. As always, I can never keep it short so feel free to read in your head and spare your svelte voice. Russian Submarine K-278 Komsomolets, aka the “Mike class” in NATO terminology. One and only of her type. Titanium hull so extremely deep diving, heavy use of automation to allow a low crew complement of less than 70 (about half of the average attack sub) but was destroyed by fire and sank in 1989. Despite being a second object lesson in the recurring deficiencies of Soviet firefighting and damage control capability in the 80s resulting in a total loss (the first being the K-219 strategic missile sub also lost to fire only a few years prior in 1986) had K-278 continued in service, in your opinion what would have been her purpose? Was she to have been a technological marvel meant to scare the West, a test bed/tech demonstrator for new ideas, a boondoggle out of the Kremlin or something else entirely?
MrToBeNamedLater
2024-06-10 18:16:01 +0000 UTCI watched your episode 2 of the tzarist UA:D's and you spoke on the kirov class. Well, in 2008 I got to tour the weather deck of one of the kirov class ships. (Pretty sure it was a kirov class, unless they have another battlecruiser class?) They and we had both pulled into Toulon. Two things I noted: It was a filthy dirty ship, and their haze gray is as dark as our deck gray. Oh, and the double barreled main gun was really cool to look at.
ShellBack Beau
2024-06-10 14:03:08 +0000 UTC
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